(louder version / wersja głośniejsza Tom O'Bedlam) kontekst (pl) wersja polska (znów dość cicha) recytuje M.Kocurek

The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem

#Education is not the filling of a pail, but the lighting of a fire #WilliamButlerYeats

Write for the ear, so that you may be instantly understood as when an actor or folk singer stands before an audience #WilliamButlerYeats

I am still of opinion that only two topics can be of the least interest to a serious and studious mood - sex and the dead #WilliamButlerYeats

I have spent my life in clearing out of poetry every phrase written for the eye & bringing all back to syntax that is for ear alone #WilliamButlerYeats

Nor dread nor hope attend A dying animal; A man awaits his end Dreading & hoping all #WilliamButlerYeats

이런 가을에는 시 읽으면 감성 충만이 됩니다... 에세이를 읽다가... 시를 쓰다가 시를 읽기도 합니다. 가을은 누가 뭐래도 시 읽는 계절입니다... 윌리엄 예이츠의 가장 좋은 시입니다. 그대 늙었을 때 그대 늙어 머리 희고 불을 쬐다 졸리거든, 이 책을 꺼내 천천히 읽어 봐 고왔던 시절 꿈꾸다가 그대 눈에 한때 짙은 그림자가 어리네 얼마나 많은 사랑들이 그대의

What can be explained is not poetry #WilliamButlerYeats

Hearts are not had as a gift but hearts are earned By those who are not entirely beautiful #WilliamButlerYeats

All empty souls tend toward extreme opinions #WilliamButlerYeats

Too long a sacrifice Can make a stone of the heart. Oh, when may it suffice? #WilliamButlerYeats

Man can embody the truth but he cannot know it #WilliamButlerYeats

A poet creates tragedy from his own soul, that soul which is alike in all men #WilliamButlerYeats

I must lie down where all the ladders start, in the foul rag & bone shop of the heart #WilliamButlerYeats

We taste & feel & see the truth. We do not reason ourselves into it #WilliamButlerYeats

Like a long-legged fly upon the stream His mind moves upon silence #WilliamButlerYeats

I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore #WilliamButlerYeats

“昔我往矣,杨柳依依。今我来思,雨雪霏霏” --《诗经·小雅·采薇》 柳树，是诗经里并不少见的意象。苍翠的柳树可以用来表现春天和蓬勃的生机，而有时则用以抒发离别之殇，这也是后世以“折柳”示惜别的缘起。叶芝(William Butler Yeats)的这一首柳园里(Down by the Salley Garden)，很有着股诗经的韵味。 原文与意译 Down by the salley gardens,